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Adamantius Judaeus
Adamantius Judaeus
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Adamantius, known as "the Jew" (Judaeus), was a Greek-writing author of a treatise on physiognomy, the art of reading character from bodily appearance. His Physiognomonica, in two books, abridges and reworks the earlier, lost Greek physiognomic writings of Polemon of Laodicea, and survives in the Greek manuscript tradition. A Jewish convert who lived in the eastern Roman/early Byzantine world, he is conventionally placed in the 4th century CE, perhaps at Constantinople or Alexandria, though his exact dates and biography are poorly documented. He is valued today mainly as a witness to the ancient physiognomic tradition.
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About Alexandria
Alexandria is the main Mediterranean port of northern Egypt and the country's second city. Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, it became the capital of the Ptolemies, whose Museum and Great Library made it the leading centre of Hellenistic learning. It also held one of the largest Jewish communities of antiquity, where the Greek Bible translation known as the Septuagint was produced and Philo wrote. Church tradition traces its patriarchate to Mark the Evangelist, and its catechetical school was led by Clement and Origen. Arab forces under Amr ibn al-As took the city in 641, and it remained a commercial and scholarly hub of the Islamic world; the Sufi master Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari was born there.